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May 2020

May 01, 2020

What Good Is There In Going To Church If We Do Not Love Our Neighbor?

When disease strikes, we deal with it as is needed. It affects our lives. We...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Reopening Churches After The Lockdown

Trying to slow the spread of COVID-19 to manageable levels has brought much of the...

April 27, 2020

The Holy Spirit and Deaconesses

In the so-called Apostolic Constitutions, probably written in late 4th century Syria, we read not only...

April 26, 2020

Women and the Resurrection

Time is important. What happens in time doesn’t merely have temporal significance, it has eternal...

April 24, 2020

God Does Not Throw Us Away

Hans Urs von Balthasar suggests that the way many of us treat the concept of...

April 22, 2020

We Should Acknowledge The Plight Of The People While Rejecting The Protests Against The Governors

Throughout the United States, pockets of protestors have sprung up, demanding governors to remove quarantine...

April 21, 2020

Paul Did Not Want Us To Be Idle

Sometimes, when told that God expects Christians to take care of the poor, someone will...

April 19, 2020

Thomas Sunday, Doubling the Resurrection

On the first day of the week (Sunday), but also, counting through the days of...

April 17, 2020

To Freely Speak With God

Often when we pray, or rather, when we try to pray, our heart is not...

April 16, 2020

We Are Not Being Judged By God With The Coronavirus, But We Will Be Judged By How We Deal With It

While the novel coronavirus COVID-19 should not be seen as divine punishment, some manipulators are...

April 14, 2020

Our Actions, Not Fate, Determine What We Experience

One of the most dangerous things to develop in popular forms of piety in religion...

April 12, 2020

Easter, Passover, and the Coronavirus

The First Ode for Resurrection Matins (in the Byzantine tradition) reminds us of the connection...

April 10, 2020

The Revelation of the True Messianic Kingdom on the Cross

By accepting a place next to criminals, next to those recognized as public sinners, Jesus...

April 08, 2020

For the Sake of the Common Good, Save the Postal Service

Through the pride of his riches the rich man rules over other men, whom he...

April 07, 2020

Grace or Judgment

The desert fathers and mothers wanted to establish a utopian like community in the desert....

April 05, 2020

Jesus Enters Into Jerusalem

Soon after raising Lazarus from the dead, Jesus entered into Jerusalem. There, he found a...

April 04, 2020

The Raising of Lazarus and Us

Before entering Jerusalem, Jesus demonstrated that he is the Lord of the living and the...

April 02, 2020

Closing Houses of Worship During a Pandemic Does Not Violate Religious Liberty

With COVID-19 exponentially spreading across the world, quarantines have been put in place, restricting where...

April 01, 2020

Humility

My son, glorify yourself with humility, and ascribe to yourself honor according to your worth...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

While Quarantined, We Can Still Adore Christ Even Without Access to the Eucharist

Eucharistic adoration is a treasured Western devotion to Christ. There is good with it, because...

March 29, 2020

St Mary of Egypt and Social Distancing

Following the Sunday of St. John Climacus, the fifth Sunday of the Great Fast is...

March 27, 2020

Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving Work Together

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are three key elements of a Christian life. While the church...

March 25, 2020

The Annunciation and Consent

The Annunciation tells us about God and how he interacts with us. When Mary was...

March 24, 2020

Christians Must Promote the Common Good, and Not Scapegoat Others, During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Black Plague led to all kinds of scapegoating as people wanted to find someone...

March 22, 2020

Jacob’s Ladder and St John Climacus

One of the many intriguing stories in Genesis is that of Jacob dreaming about a...

March 20, 2020

Prayer

Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life. We need communion with God. We...

March 18, 2020

Time Without Sacraments? Do Not Fear. We Can Still Receive God’s Grace

While the Mass (Divine Liturgy) has a central role in the Christian life, we must...

March 17, 2020

St Patrick and the Snakes

While St. Patrick did not drive out snakes from Ireland, the legend suggesting he did...

March 15, 2020

The Cross, The Sign and Path of Love

Now the flaming sword no longer guards the gates of Eden; It has mysteriously been...

March 12, 2020

Mass-less is not Faithless

In early Christian times, the period of the Great Fast, that is, Lent, a time...

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